NGINX load balancer DOS itself
- by cjaredrun
I have been running a load balancing machine for a number of months now which has had no problems in the past. I got woken up to some downtime and I am seeing this a lot in syslog:
TCP: Possible SYN flooding on port 80. Sending cookies.
At which point Nginx takes up 100% of the cpu and doesn't come back down to normal for several minutes.
I have it running on Ubuntu currently but I also was able to replicate on Debian 6.